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Phrenology in the 19thCentury was the belief that a person’s abilities could be determined by the shape of one’s skull and the size of the “bumps” thereon. Thoroughly discounted by science today, phrenology was proscribed to be a true science by most intellectuals of the time. It is estimated that over 2,000“Practical Phrenologists” had set out across America to read the heads –“having their heads examined,” of a population eager to better themselves. Prof. Phineas Fairhead P.P. a.k.a. Lee Slider will provide an entertaining lecture on this little known aspect of 19thCentury popular culture.

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